Medical Device Project Manager - Italy Fagagna

Medical Device Project Manager - Italy
Fagagna
Friuli Venezia Giulia, Fagagna

Project Portfolio Manager** to manage the Project Stage Gate process across Corin, a manufacturer of hip and knee implants and medical technologies.

**Please note this is one role which can be based in either Itlay, Cirencester (UK), Germany, or Belgium.

**The key responsibilities of the Project Portfolio Manager are.

**Stage Gate process**:

- Manage the Stage Gate process for all the NPI projects across the organization (Implants, Techno-hardware, Techno-software)

- Ensure all NPI projects follow the Company's Stage Gate process

- Maintain, refine and improve the existing Stage Gate process

- Continue to develop the Stage Gate process and its alignment with the other linked processes - S&OP, Finance, CEC, Product rationalization process, etc but also to the Design procedures.

- Communicate and train people to make sure the Stage Gate process is properly understood and used by the various departments involved in the NPI project

**Project Approval Committee (PAC) board and New Product Introduction (NPI) board**:

- Schedule and set-up of the agenda for the meetings, collect the required data and distribute the presentations in advance to the meeting

- Animate and conduct the PAC and NPI meetings to make sure the agenda is covered, and all the key points are addressed

- Write of the meetings minutes (with an approval step) and distribute all the reporting documents according to the process rules

- Follow-up of the requested actions

- Make sure the communication is smooth and clear

- Challenge project leaders and team managers to make sure project proposals, plans and presented data are consistent and robust (timeline, budget, resource availability, strategy, production constraints, etc.

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- Challenge directors to ensure clarity in the decision-making process

- Identify project conflicts and keep project priorities updated according to the Company's strategy

- Maintain with a high level of accuracy the monthly project portfolio reporting

- Update of the Project slide Deck

- Update of the Project reporting document

- Refine and improve the existing PAC and monthly project reporting process

- Gather consensus regarding Gates to be presented for approval to the NPI board

**Project Core Teams (PCT)**:

- Improve the way the PCTs are working, the way cross-functional teams are built, and resource allocation is managed

- Collaborate with project leaders to ensure efficient decision-making process and precise monthly project schedule performance

- Coordinate additional, parallel project related meetings if required

- Identify needs and implement trainings to reinforce skills in this project management area across the organization

**Other general responsibilities**:

- Manage establishment of processes and systems that support the product development lifecycle, according to the Company's quality systems

- Facilitate the refinement and the harmonization of the Design quality system and the key SOP's linked to the development of new projects across the organization

- Ensure that projects selected to proceed meet the Company's investment criteria and/or support the Company's business strategy

- Keep up to date with programme/Project Management best practices and introduce these to Corin as necessary

- Ensure visibility of projects, both NPI and other key non-NPI projects, to key stakeholders via suitable software/IT systems or using standardised reports

**Requirements**:

**The ideal Project Portfolio Manager will have/be**:

- Educated to Master level in Biomedical engineering

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

- Good time management skills.

- The ability to produce and deliver technical/business presentations.

- Excellent listening skills.

- Strong capacity to negotiate and to influence.

- Programme/Project Management skills and experience gained within high-tech industries.

- Excellent IT, presentation and numeracy skills.

- Business focussed, flexible and responsive.

- Highly motivated and capable of working with a minimum of supervision.

- The ability to identify and analyse problems and generate solutions.

Corin is a medical device business with innovative robotically assisted platforms for joint replacement surgery.

Corin offers a unique combination of clinically proven hip & knee solutions and world leading technologies, our OMNIBotics & OPS systems utilize intelligent instrumentation to give surgeons the ability to perform patient-specific procedures with high accuracy, with more consistent results and improved recovery rates.

**Corin provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by local laws.